Rationality, Control, and Freedom

This book provides a concise, clear summary of the history of the "free will" vs. determinism controversy and offers a discussion of the basic differences of view. It offers a solution that is within the tradition of compatibilism, linking the concept of freedom to that of control; and it is naturalistic, in that it respects the constraints suggested by science and by engineering control theory, regarding the concept "control" and what that can and should mean.